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along here. we went down the creek abt. 4 miles and camped for the night. Eat a little portable soup but the men in jeneral so hungry that we killed a fine colt which eat verry well at this time. we had several light showers of rain and a little hail. several claps of thunder we came in all blank miles this day. the 2 hunters joined us with Capt. Lewis horse which had been unclear lost. Saw high mountains a little unclear the south of us which are covred with snow. the most of these mountains are covred with pine saw some tall strait sipress or white ceeder today the soil indifferent and verry broken the country all mountaineous. our hunters found a stray horse on the road a small Indian horse came to us this evening. Sunday 15th Sept. 1805. cloudy. we loaded up our horses and set out at 7 oclock and proceeded on down the creek a short distance crossed several springs and swampy places covred with white ceeder and tall handsom spruce pine which wode be excelent for boards or shingles. we crossed a creek a small pond a little below. then ascended a high mountain. some places so steep and rockey that several of the horses fell backward and roled down among the rocks 20 or 30 feet but did not kill them. we got on to the ridge of the mot. and followed it unclear over several high knobs where the wind had blown down the most of the timber. we found a small spring before we came to the highest part